Maggie Rogers Quotes

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

I'm basically a musician.

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.

I play a bunch of instruments.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

Music is my life.

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

I've always been a songwriter.

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

We're all big fans of bluegrass.

I started singing in college just as a fun thing to entertain.